An Instructional Environment for Practicing Argumentation Skills

CAT0 is an instructions environment for practicing basic skills of legal research: to use cases in arguments about a problem situation and to test a theory about a legal domain. Using the CAT0 tools, law students analyze a legal problem, frame queries of CATO'S database of legal cases, and judge how relevant the retrieved cases are to their developing argument or theory. CAT0 aids hming by making exn abstract model of the process of argument. It allows students to focus on the high-level argumentation issues, by assisting the student in various ways. ding an abstract representation of the text of cases, it helps students to reason about the texts and helps guide their critical analysis of the texts. CAT0 makes available opportunities for practice that are hard to set up with traditional instructional methods. CAT0 differs from other instructional environments in the following respects: Few instructional environments focus on argumentation skills. Although there are other instruct...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Vincent Aleven, Kevin D. Ashley
• Keywords: AAAI 1994, Abstract Representation, Few Instructional Environments, Instructional Environments, Intelligent Agents